Dispatches from the 10th Crusade

Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'home schooling'

I reported previously on Scotland's "named person" law, which assigns a non-parental busybody to monitor the well-being of every single child in Scotland until age eighteen. Not only is that plan going forward, but schools and "named persons" in Scotland...

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There are two tendencies in talking about freedom that, it seems to me, need to be resisted. The first is an attempt to make absolutely sweeping pronouncements to the effect that people should be free to do everything of type...

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You just can't make this stuff up. Scotland has passed and is beginning to implement a law which assigns every child in Scotland from birth to age eighteen a "named person," selected by the government, whose job it is to...

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Home schoolers around the world are rejoicing in the unexpected news, after some hair-raising twists and turns to the case, that the Romeike family will not be deported. Here, in brief, is what has happened: As followers of the case...

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In this entry I discussed the horrible treatment meted out by Sweden to the Johannson family, whose son was snatched from them off an airplane by government representatives because his parents were planning to go back to his mother's home...

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One of my Facebook acquaintances, I don't remember who, recently put up a link to this video. I would like to think that all of my readers are men of sense and will see that this bright child is being...

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This article on home schooling and studies thereof is rather interesting. A few comments: The author tentatively suggests that perhaps a weakness of home schooling is that it doesn't sufficiently prepare students for the "soul-destroying" regimentation of life outside the...

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The usual caution about my not being a lawyer applies in spades to this entry, because it is related to asylum law, which is an area that is new to me even as an interested layman. Germany outlaws home schooling...

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The most recent news regarding a (formerly) home schooling family in Sweden is so bad that it is painful even to have to pass it along. Some of my readers may have been following the years'-long case of the Johannsons...

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Ah, the glorious choices feminism was supposed to offer women. The opportunities! The empowerment! Put your kids in daycare and have a career because it's your choice to do so. I remember almost twenty-five years ago meeting a Russian woman...

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Michael Farris of HSLDA is writing a new article and put a sneak preview of it, a small section, up on Facebook. In that way I became acquainted with a totalitarian trend in our law schools. (A friend recently said...

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In a letter to his father, the young C.S. Lewis wrote, I wonder is there some influence abroad now-a-days that prevents the growth of rich, strongly marked personal peculiarities. Are any of our contemporaries “characters” as Queen Victoria or Dizzy...

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So here's an odd story in which the good guys triumph, in this month's HSLDA Court Report. They call it "The Case of the Missing Case," and for good reason. It seems a judge (who remains unnamed) in Mississippi got...

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All of us know CPS horror stories. Parents whose children were taken by Child Protective Services for no good reason and, on the other side, children (sometimes in the course of custody battles) whose custody was granted to a parent...

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There has been a recent flap in my area connecting the issues of embryonic stem-cell research and, surprisingly enough, home schooling. I became aware of what was going on a bit after the fact and am only now getting a...

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In a comment to Jeff Culbreath's post below on our British heritage, I said this (slightly edited here): It seems to me that the freedom that Americans consider so important, in particular the impatience with petty bureaucracy, has been instrumental...

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In Quebec, all children from 1st grade up have to be put through a relativistic "religion" curriculum that teaches that homosexuality is normal and that treats all religions, including atheism, as equal. I said "all children." I meant "all children."...

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This story just in: A New Hampshire judge has ordered a 10-year-old girl to be sent to public school because she seems too committed to her mother's religious views and hasn't learned to be critical enough of them. As she...

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Privilege implies responsibility. Conservatives realize quite well that it is not laws, or not laws alone, that best guard our freedoms but mutual trust and common understandings. Which is not to say that laws are unimportant. Indeed, they become more...

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Via Jeff Culbreath's blog comes a bit of good news: The same California court that earlier declared home schooling illegal for parents without teaching credentials has reversed its ruling on this point entirely. Clearly, the court reads What's Wrong with...

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As those who have been following the case already know, the California court that declared home schooling (and all school-connected satellite study programs) illegal under California law has agreed to rehear the case, voiding its earlier ruling. It's going to...

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A California state court has handed down a ruling that, if not overturned, is bad news for home schoolers in the state. The Home School Legal Defense Association was not involved in the case. The family in question were not...